Production on The Batman resumes in the U.K. following Robert Pattinson's COVID recovery
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Two weeks ago, we reported that production on Matt Reeves’ The Batman was shut down only a few days after the end of its coronavirus hiatus because an unnamed crew member had tested positive for COVID-19. Later that day, reports came out that the positive test came from none other than star Robert Pattinson, who is playing the Batman himself. Warner Bros. never confirmed that it was Pattinson, saying just that it wanted to protect the privacy of whoever had tested positive, but it quickly became one of those unconfirmed Hollywood rumors that everyone accepts as true—meaning that it probably was true and that everyone in show business is constantly being followed around by people who will gladly sell out their privacy in exchange for the thrill of sending in a hot tip to The Media (not that any of that is news).
Anyway, it’s been two weeks, COVID symptoms reportedly tend to last two weeks, and so now Variety says that production on The Batman has officially resumed. Warner Bros. confirmed that the movie took a hiatus “for COVID-19 quarantine precautions,” without saying what those were or if any specific actors were involved, but now filming has resumed. Variety says that work on the movie technically continued without the unnamed actor, as “some sets continued to be constructed,” though the cameras had “effectively stopped rolling.” (That seems to imply that they were still rolling a little bit, but things probably weren’t held back too badly if the hiatus was only a couple of weeks long.)
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Anyway, it’s been two weeks, COVID symptoms reportedly tend to last two weeks …If you’re one of the lucky ones, that is …
You mean the 99.99% percent of young, healthy people who get it? Yes, we’re very lucky.
If Batman has made a viable vaccine I hope she shares it. Like with the antidote to Scarecrow/League of Shadows Blue Flower Gas.
Me waiting to hear who gets COVID-19 next in the film industry:
I am so looking forward to the eventual return of On Cinema and see how they address the pandemic. Tim’s character is definitely going to be an anti-masker. But man, they already killed off Doctor San and teenagers died from a lung-related disease because of listening to a Trump supporter… it’s like the Electric Sun Music Festival predicted 2020 for the U.S. Tim and Gregg are oracles.
Tim & Eric’s Mandatory Tour was even more accidentally on the nose, as Tim ended up giving the entire audience the extremely contagious “Pork’s Disease” and the CDC had to fly in with the cure for it (which you could get at the merch table.)